22 February 2015

Here is an infographic that seeks to illustrate if there is a relationship between sleep pattern and success—created by Made To Measure Blinds UK, it shows how much sleep the “top, ultra-successful” individuals get as compared to their peers in their various sectors.

Using data from a YouGov survey that “asked 1,401 individuals in different jobs about how much sleep they get per night”, this infographic maps the sleep patterns of famous personalities, including Thomas Edison, Jeff Bezos, Donald Trump and Jay Leno.

For instance, it shows that US President Barack Obama gets 6 hours of sleep every night, which makes him one of the 35% of people in politics that gets 4-6 hours of sleep a night.

This infograpic also presents alternative sleep patterns to the conventional monophasic one where the individual sleep once every 24 hours that you may want to try out—read it in full below.